Yom HaAtzmaut

Today, as part of my school's Yom HaAtzmaut round robin of presentations relating to the examples of the opportunities (or "knocks," as Rav Soloveichik put it) afforded by the miracle of the state of Israel, I did (4 times, one for each grade) a nine minute interpretation of 3 important people who made aliyah/were embraced and absorbed by the holiest of lands.

 As Yehuda Amichai, Great Poet

 As Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, Founder, Nefesh B'Nefesh

As Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Former Chief Rabbi